Bottle-washing machine



Patented Mar. 9,1880.

i 4 UNITED STATES lPATENT Orme BOTTLE-WASHING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 225,231, dated March 9, 1-880.

Application filed June 23, 1879.

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES Mrcnnt, of La Crosse, in the countyof LaCrosse and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain' Improvements in Bottle-I/Vashing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in providing arotary .shaft with two parallel disks adapted to receive, respectively, the necks and butts of the bottles, and to hold them with one end nearer the shaft than the other, and also in providing the pockets or openings in which the bottles are seated with shoulders in the outer side to retain the bot-tles therein.

'Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a single machine constructed on my plan 5 Fig. 2, a longitudinal verticalsection through a double machine of similar construction; Fig. 3, a sectional view, showing a modified arrangement for holding` the bottles in place.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a stationaryT frame sustaining a horizontal rotary shaft, B, provided with one or more pairs of vertical disks, C D. Each disk C is provided with a large number of holes or pockets, a, through which the bottles are inserted, and by which they are sustained at the butt, and the disks `D are each provided with a correspond- ,ing series of smaller holes or pockets, b, to receive and hold the necks of the bottles. The

- pockets b are placed nearer the shaft than the corresponding pockets a, so that the bottles stand in the same plane with the shaft, but at an inclination thereto, their necks being nearer the center than their butts.

In order to hold the bottles in place any suitable devices may be employed. The best and most simple is that represented in Fig.,2, consisting simply in providing each of the pockets a with a shoulder or oifseac, in the outer side to engage over the butt of the bottle.

In charging the machine the bottles are inserted through the diskCat the top of the machine, and are retained in place by their tendency to slide forward toward the disk D. As the heads are filled they are gradually turned to bring empty pockets within reach, and as the bottles are thus carried down they fall in front of the shoulders c, as shown in Fig. 2, whereby they are prevented from sliding out.

Another means of holding the bottles in the peculiar position of the bottles with reference to the shaft and their rotation around the same, the contents are thrown from endto end, and at the same time caused to travel around the inner surface, so that every portion of the interior surface. is thoroughly cleansed.

It is obvious that the construction of the frame and the disks, each pair of which constitute jointly a single carrier or support, may be modified, provided the bottles are held in the position and rotated in the manner described and shown.

I am aware that various rotary machines have been devised for washing bottles, and that among others was 011e having two parallel disks sustained obliquely between two journals, and provided with separate clamps for each bottle.

The essential feature of my invention is the arrangement of supports or pockets to sustain the bottles in the position shown and described with reference to the axis of rotation. While it is preferred to use the two disks, it is manifest that the use of a single large head having inclined pockets therein, or a single disk having pockets thereon, would be in every sense an equivalent of the two disks.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim isl. The bottle-washing machine consisting of the shaft provided with the parallel disks, one having a series of pockets for the necks and the other having at a different distance from the center of the shaft a series of pockets to receive the butts.

2. A bottle-washing machine having avertically-rotating carrier provided with a series of bottle-receiving pockets distributed evenly around the axis of rotation to balance the IOO also fixed upon the shaft, and provided with openings through which the bottles may be 15 introduced in an inclined position, and means, substantially such as described, for retaining the bottles therein.

5. In a bottle-Washing machine, the rotary disk C, provided with the openings a and the zo fixed shoulders therein, as shown.

CHARLES MICHEL.

Witnesses EMIL SCHMID, CARL FROEHLICH. 

